Upper Peninsula cemetery makes more room for green burials
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
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CHASSELL TOWNSHIP, MI – An Upper Peninsula cemetery is making more room for so-called green burials.
The Chassell Township cemetery in Houghton County has sold out of the approximately 40 sites that were created five years ago and has added more than two dozen plots in a wooded area, The Daily Mining Gazette in Houghton reported.
“Interest in green burial is increasing, and it’s important to us to respond to the needs of our community,” Joseph Youngman of the Chassell Public Works Department told the newspaper.
Green burials refer to a traditional style burial in which the use embalming fluids to preserve the body are not used. The body typically is buried in a biodegradable container or a cloth shroud allowing normal decomposition and the body to be naturally recycled.